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TIL light in itself isn’t special, it’s just that according to Einstein, the fastest speed reachable in the universe is 300K m/s. It just happens that light is the only thing we detected that travels without limitations in vacuum, which is why we associate the speed limit of the universe with it.

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vPRbD TIL in 1987 a news broadcast was interupted by a man pointing a gun at a newscaster, whilst giving him a piece of paper to read which was his manifesto detailing the CIA and aliens. Once the police arrived he immediately put down his gun (which was revealed to be a toy) and was arrested.
wL9r7 TIL that from 1912 to 1948, there was architecture, designing and town planning as an Olympic Event.
x6kBg TIL that American chicken is not considered safe for European consumption
oBNlW TIL that in 1998, as Mark McGwire set the record for most home runs hit in a baseball season, he was found to be using a legal steroid-precursor called androstenedione. After this was reported in the news, sales of the supplement increased over 1000%.
VPJ0 TIL Venus Flytraps are native to with an approximate 100mi circle around Wilmington, North Carolina – not the Amazon or some other jungle.